Intermittently actuated mechanism



March 3, 1936.

J. HELBEIN INTERMITTENTLY ACTUATED MBCHANI SM Filed March 16, 1954 BYC \N INVENTOR ayx ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 3, 1936 a time piece which is wound UNITED STATES PATENTQFFICE INTERMITTENTLY ACTUATED MECHANISM Jacques Helbein, Geneva, Switzerland Application March 16, 1934, Serial No. 715,804 In Switzerland August 16, 1933 3 Claims.

This invention relates to intermittently actuated mechanisms, and more specifically to a device wherein a rotary mechanism is combined with a clock mechanism.

In general, it is an object of the invention to provide a device of the character described, which will efiiciently perform the purpose for which it is intended, which is simple and economical of construction, which can be conveniently manipulated and which can be readily manufactured and assembled.

Another object of the invention is to provide dial telephone.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts, which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

rim 8 is fixed to the dial 3 9.

by the dialing of a For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of a device embodying one form of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in cross section taken along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a side view of the device shown in Fig. l, a portion being broken away.

Although the present invention is adapted to be used wherever one mechanism which requires occasional re-motivation is used in connection with another mechanism which receives occasional motivation, it is here exemplified by a timing mechanism so mechanically interrelated with the dialing unit of a telephone that the operation of the latter keeps the former wound.

In the drawing, I indicates a casing in which may be located the usual telephonic apparatus having a support 2 for a telephone receiver. The rotating oscillatory dial 3 is mounted on a cap 4, the bottom of which is secured to the shaft 5, which actuates the calling mechanism in the easing I. The casing of the clock mechanism may be associated with the dial in any desired fashion. It is shown as located centrally of the dial and formed of an annulus B fixed in the cap 4. The clock movement 1 is within the clock casing. The

ID is the watch face.

and carries the crystal Means for setting the hands may beprovided, for example, the button' H.

Suitable means for winding the clock are associated with the telephone mechanism. Thus a circular rack 12 may be fixed on the casing l. A pinion l3 may roll against the rack, the shaft M of the pinion being mounted between the Wall of the cap 4 and bracket 15, which is fixed to the cap 4. The pinion l3 may be in meshwith a second pinion [6, which is fixed on the winding stem IL.

Whenever the telephone mechanism is actuat-' ed by its motivating meansthe dial 3, the pin-- ion l3 rolls on the rack 12 and transmits its rota-- tion through the pinion to the watch stem 11, which is as usual connected to resilient spring motive means within the works. Means are provided whereby after the clock mechanism has been wound up a predetermined amount the spring means are wound no further. For example there, may be an overload slip device connected with the clock spring itself which does not release the spring, but which will not allow the spring to be wound up too tightly.

The clock mechanism may take the form of a stop Watch'if desired.

Since certain changes may be made in the above description and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween. 40

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination, a telephone dial, a base therefor, a clock mechanism, a rack fixedly positioned with respect to said base, a pinion having an axis fixed with respect to said dial and movable along said rack, and a second pinion in mesh with said first pinion and connected to the winding means of said clock mechanism.

2. In combination, a fixed base, a telephone dial, a clock case fixed centrally with respect to said dial, a rotatable shaft, said dial and said case being fixedly attached to said shaft, a circular rack fixedly attached to said base and coaxial with, and facing along said shaft, a pinion adapt- I 6 as a connecting means 15 ed to roll on said rack and having an axis fixed with respect to said dial, and a second pinion adapted to be rotated by said first pinion and having a shaft longitudinally fixed with respect to said dial, said last-mentioned shaft being adapted to act as a winding stem for clock works in said case.

3. In combination, a fixed base, a telephone dial, a clock case fixed centrally with respect to 10 said dial, a rotatable shaft, said dial and said 

